Heorhiy Mayboroda
Heorhiy Mayboroda was born in December 1, 1913 on the farm Pelehovschina of Globynsky district in Poltava land. Childhood and youth of the future composer fell on hard times – The I World War, the October events, the Civil war, destruction and hunger. However, his family survived. Heorhiy was the eldest son of Hilarion who was a simple farmer, but he was a man of great spiritual beauty. Though he graduated three classes of a parochial school, he distinguished himself in his environment with erudition and breadth of interests.
His father read a lot (in his own library it was possible to found works of Dickens, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Goncharov). The whole family Mayboroda not only sang, but music powerfully attracted them. With respect thereto Hilarion Ivanovich and his brothers show the same thoroughness and seriousness, as to all their classes.They learned to read notes. Not only mastered, but also taught it the others.
Heorhiy studied at school in Pelehivschyna, and then in the nearby village Horby. Not far from the village Hrynky,
where Mykola Lysenko was born and grew up. At school he was extremely lucky with the teacher of music and singing, his name was Ivan Gyrenko. He was trying to open the world of more serious music, to instill in him a love to native art. One can only imagine how the children listened to stories of Ivan Girenko about Lysenko!
H. Mayboroda finished seven years school in 1928 and during three years he was studying at the Kremenchug Industrial College. In 1931 he worked as a technician at the Zaporozhye aluminum plant, but did not forget about music. It was beckoning him stronger. Life in the city gave more opportunities for this; new musical experience, familiarity with musical genres, about its existence he had only heard previously.
Opera one of the first and the most powerful musical experiences. Once mobile theatre brought opera "Pagliacci" of Leonkovallo, this opera aroused a storm of emotions and thoughts in the young man. Incidentally, it is one of the most complex of musical genres. The next musical "discovery" was the piano sonatas of Beethoven.
H. Mayboroda self-taught a lot. And for the future composer a small local orchestra was original creative laboratory. All his spare time Heorhiy spent in a club where there were regular rehearsals of the orchestra. Conductor S. Arotsky interested youths and helped him in every way. A large musical library of Arotsky, talks with him about the symphony orchestra and symphonic specifics - all this stimulated him to study, to master the skill of the musician. He decided to conduct "Japanese Suite" Yoshitomo.
Heorhiy Mayboroda took up his violin concerto, but wrote only two parts - and then only the violin part, because in the orchestra party ran into insurmountable difficulties. He put it to "better times". He tried to write other works, but he did not have any knowledge about it.
Heorhiy went to Kiev, where he tried to enter the conservatory, but he was enrolled in a fourth-year music school. Only one year later he was in the walls of the conservatory, where he was studying in class at L. Revutskiy.
During his student years he wrote the symphonic poem "Lileya" (1939), "The First Symphony" (1940), 
"Masons" (1941). Heorhiy Mayboroda won the first prize for "Lileya" still being a student of the III course. The poem went straight to a big concert stage, having won the sympathy of a wide audience. "Lileya" attracted the attention of the musical public to the young composer. The poem was approved by Shostakovich, V. Shabalin, V. Muradeli and M. Steinberg.
In June 1941 H. Mayboroda finished his studies at the conservatory, and seemed to come great prospects. Studying at the Leningrad Conservatory, where he will learn from the famous Steinberg, who taught Shostakovych and B. Shaporin. But the war intervened. In July 10 Mayboroda had fought on the front in the Mironovka-Kanev district. Soon he was captured. The soldiers drove a column in a concentration camp. Near Heorhiy was his brother Platon Mayboroda and a composer Herman Zhukovsky.
"The Pit of Death" in Khorol it is a concentration camp where the Nazis killed more than 55 thousand soldiers, prisoners of war. Through good luck Heorhiy, his brother and Zhukovsky, managed to escape.
The Nazis took Heorhiy in Polskoe in Katowice, where he worked at the factory. There was an accident, and Heorhiy was taken to hospital. In January 28, 1945 has come a welcome release. He was back in the Soviet army - a machine gunner, as a private soldier. He liberated Prague. He saw the Victory. Finally he was back in Kyiv.
Heorhiy Mayboroda studied in graduate school, where his head was L. Revutsky. During his studies he wrote songs on a military theme. In the 70s he returned to the heroic theme of war. Mayboroda created songs to words of Pushkin, Shevchenko, Mickiewicz, Franko, Ukrainka, Blok, Rilsky, Tychyna, Sosyura, Masenko. Among songs a real masterpiece – the romance "A Grove noises" in the words of Tychyna. This is a very strange and divine fusion of poetry and music, organic synthesis of parties of both voice and piano, that makes the song absolutely indivisible
organism, where both factors are equally important.
In the 50s H. Mayboroda acted as a conductor performing his own works, as a critic and reviewer, as a teacher. Thus, in the years 1952-1958, he taught at the historical and theoretical and conductor faculties in the Kyiv Conservatory and a course of orchestration and reading scores.
The composer worked hard. He created the opera "Milan" (1957, the second edition 1967), "Arsenal" (1960), "Taras Shevchenko" (1964), "Yaroslav the Wise" (1973).
He wrote four symphonies, several rhapsodies, suites, overtures, concertos for voice and violin with orchestra, numerous choruses, songs, collections processing of Ukrainian folk songs, which brought him, deserved fame and reputation. In 1960 he was awarded the title People's Artist of the USSR, and in 1963 became the laureate of the Shevchenko Prize.
Heorhiy Mayboroda died in December, 6, 1992 and was buried in Kiev.
